I daresay I can educate another artist before I die.

You are really only fit to swing a censer behind Paolo, or at the heels of some such animal." "Perhaps it would be better to do that than to serve the mass you sing over your work-bench every day," said Gianbattista.

"You are going too far, Sor Marzio.

One may trifle with women and their feelings.

You had better not attempt it with men." "Such as you and Paolo?
There was once a mule in the Pescheria Vecchia; when he got half-way through he did not like the smell of the fish, and he said to his leader, 'I will turn back.' The driver pulled him along.
Then said the mule, 'Do not trifle with me.